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Software Engineer - Maritime at Anduril Industries

Software engineer on Anduril's maritime systems; the posting lists a Secret clearance and experience delivering a military mission system.

Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how autonomous systems are designed, built and sold. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to out customers in months, not years.

About the Team

Anduril’s Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.

We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.

About the Job

Software Engineers contribute to the delivery of a variety of software integrated in to our products. This includes autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off-board command and control and decision support. We expect Software Engineers to demonstrate end-to-end outcome ownership of their projects, contributing as a member of a team to the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.

What You’ll Do

- Empathize with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment

- Own software enabled solutions that are deployed to customers, optimizing for the delivery of value to the end-user

- Implement software that rapidly delivers capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time

- Contribute to the development of existing software services across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines

- Develop software that runs on- and off- robotic platforms, using a variety of technologies

- Work as part of team to develop, then iteratively enhance, vehicle and mission software, including full lifecycle testing, monitoring and operation

- Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop

- Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment

- Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team

- Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience

- Professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of competence

- Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing and software design

- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems

- Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment

- Capacity to learn and grow rapidly, building personal and team capacity, growing your skills to the standard of Senior Software Engineer

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in the delivery of a military mission system

- Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or Go

- Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React

- Experience with the implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies

- Experience with the implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics

- Experience with modeling and simulation

- Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software

- Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.

- Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts

US Salary Range

$167,000, $222,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams

Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.

To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:

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No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.

- Please always verify communications:

- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.

- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com.

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Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.

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What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.

Data Privacy

To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/.

By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.

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Clearance
Secret, employer can sponsor
Location
Costa Mesa, California
Pay
$167,000 to $222,000 a year
Role
Software engineering
Level
Mid
Posted
2026-09-15

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